Things you don't understand watch - have you got things you don't understand?

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GregP
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Average county championship attendance 4,000 (apparently - at Chelmsford it's frequently a tenth of that or less.

MLB average attendance 26,843.
ThorntonRunner
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I wonder what they mean by average cc attendance? Is that per day or per game - 4000 seems very high for either, definitely very high if it's per day!
GordonG
GordonG
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4:06pm, 31 Jan 2023
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Temperatures: depends if it's hot or cold

"It's boiling outside: must be 85 degrees [F]"
"It's freezing outside: down to minus 2 [C]"

But yes, I also run in miles and swim in Ks. I suspect that's because my local pool is 25m long. Sounds more logical than swimming 82.021 feet.
Steve NordRunner
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I'm unashamedly metric due to being educated in transitional years, and to emigrating from UK many years back. Even so, I learnt machining from Americans initially, and have great difficulty switching in Europe from thou and tenths to microns. Sometimes, mixed fractions are easier to do mental arithmetic with.
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
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4:23pm, 31 Jan 2023
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Temperature in Kelvin please.

Here's why imperial is stupid. How many inches in a mile? or whatevers in a stone? I need to know exactly how many of the smaller units are in the bigger unit. And wtf is a chain?

I can work out how many cm are in a km. Just be knowing cm =1/100th and k = 10^3.

And that works with g in a tonne or pretty much anything - don't need a different conversion scale because there are 234 pounds in an ounce and then 2 ounces in a stone or whatever.
GordonG
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4:59pm, 31 Jan 2023
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Who measures things in chains these days?
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
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5:01pm, 31 Jan 2023
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rf_fozzy
Who measures things in inches?
ThorntonRunner
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What game is played with 6 pieces of wood at either end of a chain?
swittle
swittle
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5:33pm, 31 Jan 2023
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swittle
...or sport whose duration is measured in a unit that is ten times the length of a chain?
GordonG
GordonG
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5:35pm, 31 Jan 2023
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I'd guess that there are literally millions of people in the UK who, rightly or wrongly, will measure things in inches. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

People measuring things in chains? Less likely.

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